Mark Marchant | LSHTM

Mr Mark Marchant

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

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I have a BA in political science from Vassar College and an MA in Legal & Political Theory from University College London (UCL). I have studied, worked and lived in Kenya and Tanzania since 2008, with research consulting firms, think tanks and non-profits. This experience in policy research spaces lends itself to my teaching on health policy at LSHTM. I also worked as a research consultant for UZIKWASA, a community organisation in Pangani, Tanzania engaging communities in developing grassroots social change. With a background in political theory, my main research focus at LSHTM is on community engagement in emergent disease outbreaks.

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Teaching

I am the Module Organiser (MO) for the Health Policy: Process & Power (HPPP) module at LSHTM. I have also lectured on community engagement for the University of Oxford's Clinical Research During Outbreaks (CREDO) module, Georgetown University's Engaging Communities for Health course, and contribute to the Gender Violence & Health Centre's annual short course on Researching Gender-Based Violence: Methods and Meaning.

Research

I am part of the African Coalition for Epidemic Research, Response and Training (ALERRT), working on the consortium's community engagement and social science work package. I am also the community engagement lead for AViD, a five-country project on the anthropology of vaccine deployment in emergencies, supporting the design of innovative community engagement strategies for qualitative health research. I designed and led deliberative engagement training and strategies with community health workers (CHWs) in Tanzania to improve the relevance and quality of health promotion work around COVID-19 vaccines. My PhD is on deliberative engagement with communities about vaccine trials and public health responses to emergent diseases. In all of this work, I think research can contribute to dismantling systems of domination and oppression if we have high expectations—of ourselves, of communities—and ask great questions.

Research Area

Infectious disease policy

Policy analysis

Political science

Vaccine confidence

Health policy

Social and structural determinants of health

Ethnography

Qualitative research

Colonialism

Disease and Health Conditions

COVID-19

Emerging infectious diseases

Infectious diseases

Ebola virus

Country

Kenya

Tanzania

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

ENRIA, L; DWYER, H; MARCHANT, M; BECKMANN, N; Schmidt-Sane, M; Conteh, A; MANSARAY, A; N'Jai, A;

2024

BMJ

Kwedi Nolna, S; Mbang Massom, D; Tchoteke, LA; Bille Koffi, A; MARCHANT, M; Masumbe Netongo, P;

2024

PLOS global public health

LEES, S; MARCHANT, M;

2022

Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between Uganda and Tanzania in the Context of the Outbreak of Ebola, 2022

Jones, T; ENRIA, L; LEES, S; MARCHANT, M; Tulloch, O;

2022

Frontiers in sociology

ENRIA, L; Bangura, JS; Kanu, HM; Kalokoh, JA; Timbo, AD; Kamara, M; Fofanah, M; Kamara, AN; Kamara, AI; Kamara, MM; Suma, IS; Kamara, OM; Kamara, AM; Kamara, AO; Kamara, AB; Kamara, E; LEES, S; MARCHANT, M; Murray, M;

2021

PloS one

Vanderslott, S; Van Ryneveld, M; MARCHANT, M; LEES, S; Nolna, SK; Marsh, V;

2021

BMC Public Health

LEES, S; MARCHANT, M; Selestine, V; Mshana, G; KAPIGA, S; HARVEY, S;

2020

CULTURE HEALTH & SEXUALITY

BOWMER, A; MARCHANT, M; LEES, S;

2020

UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).

MARCHANT, M;

2019

GET AFRICA: AFRICAN NEWSLETTER ON EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES & BIOSECURITY

LEES, S; MARCHANT, M; Desmond, N;